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Four wheel drive day trips in Gippsland for camps, school groups and corporate team building
1. GOLD DISCOVERY
Location: Walhalla Historic Area.
Meeting place: Moe - Gippsland Heritage Park.
Gold panning and hard rock deep mining. Explore ghost towns on the ridges by 4WD. Gold ore processing using mercury amalgam, an old sock and a baked potato.
2. COPPER AND LIME
Location: Boola State Forest.
Meeting place: Morwell - Rose Gardens
Mining and mineral processing. Lime kiln and copper smelter ruins and technologies. Origins of Melbourne's Rialto Building. River crossings and mountain climbing by 4WD.
3. BROWN COAL ENERGY
Location: Holey Plains State Park.
Meeting place: Morwell - PowerWorks visitor centre
The formation and unique properties of Victorian coal. Exploring new coalfields by 4WD. Loy Yang dinosaurs. New gasification and liquid fuels technologies.
4. THE FOUR FOOT GAP
Location: Thomson State Forest.
Meeting place: Traralgon - Latrobe Visitor Information Centre
Shooting the rapids. Rock jumping thrills. Precipitous 4WD. Water for irrigation and stream flow gauging via the Internet.
5. THE LEAP OF FAITH
Location: Mitchell River National Park.
Meeting place: Sale - Visitor Information Centre
Pure adrenalin. Bungy jumping with no bungy. Rock climbing by 4WD. Read the foundation stone of the dam that nature destroyed.
6. SAND SAFARI
Location: Nooramunga Marine and Coastal Park.
Meeting place: Port Welshpool - Maritime Museum.
4WD sand dune climbing. Coastal vegetation and environment. Artesian water. The formation and properties of brown coal, oil and natural gas, and the dilemma of their privatisation.
7. TIMBER HERITAGE
Location: Yarra State Forest.
Meeting place: Warburton - Waterwheel and Visitor Info Centre
Steam boilers, winches and tramway relics. High Lead logging. The Powell process that failed. Railway politics and The Bump. Bushfires and modern forest management. Awesome 4WDing.
8. MUSICAL HERITAGE
Location: Baw Baw National Park.
Meeting place: Moe - Gippsland Heritage Park
A museum of reproducing pianos, and a concert grand piano played by wooden fingers. Subsistence lifestyle hidden by 4WD tracks in the Great Dividing Ranges. The highest rock-fill dam in the southern hemisphere, and the politics of water.
TOUR DETAILS
Group sizes: 12 to 32.
Vehicles: Up to five Land Rover Defenders each seating 4 (comfort) or 8 (economy) passengers.
Pricing: Varies with client requirements, but typically $250/day or $160/half day per vehicle plus optional catering and any entry fees applicable. We will provide a quotation and itinerary.
Director: Ron Camier, BE, MEngSc, PhD, CEng, MIChE, FAIE, MAIPet (ret)
CONTACT MOUNTAIN-TOP EXPERIENCE (03) 5134 6876
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